White and black neutered tom.
Rescued: 08 August 1981 from Blue Cross; probably 9-12 months old.
Died: 27 July 1998 at an age approaching 18 years!
We suspect “the almost all-white rabbitty puss-cat” was a fluffy white Christmas kitten, abandoned when he became a large (he always weighed around 12lbs, 5.5Kg) tom cat.
We re-homed him from the animal charity Blue Cross, who had rescued him, when he would have been about 9-12 months old. He spent several months adjusting, but then had a glorious almost 17 years of sunny gardens, warm radiators, live mice in the small hours of the morning and a large territory (defended vigorously).
When he was about 11 the vets diagnosed deteriorating kidneys, but regular beta-blockers and a self-imposed diet of mostly white fish kept him in the pink for another six years or so!
As the years advanced he became much more vocal, confirming our suspicion from his appearance of his having some part Siamese ancestry: he had the voice, the long legs, the butterfly ears and that characteristic Siamese muzzle.
Sadly his last few weeks were tormented by an aggressive and apparently rare tumour.
His ashes are laid in one of his favourite sun-traps: under the Weigela bush in our lawn.
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